dementia refers to a syndrome =
cluster of symptoms.
It can be caused by numerous diseases, including Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, multiple sclerosis, and diabetes.

symptoms include not only problems with
memory,
apraxia [coordinated motor movements]
agnosia [failured to recognize objects]
aphasia [language problems]
and
executive functions [planning, organizing, abstract thought]
but also
psychiatric features, such as
depression, mania, and/or psychosis

back to Risperdal >>>
Ed, when will the public finally hear
that the antipsychotics — old AND new,
including Risperdal >>> are
major inducers of dementia …….
through numerous mechanisms ?

I published my book, Drug-Induced Dementia: a perfect crime, in May 2009 but no one will pay attention to it.

The elephant in the room that Pharmalot and other will not acknowledge is not just the
“off label” marketing of Risperdal and other drugs, but the unacknowledged public health crisis that these drugs are contributing to an epidemic of premature death, early-onset dementia, and dementia among the usual elderly set of patients [many of whom die from the stroke-inducing and pneumonia-inducing features of these drugs].

I strongly recommend that Mr. Silverman
begin to blog about the fundamental mechanisms through which pharmaceuticals cause pneumonia, strokes, sudden cardiac death, and dementia
[neurodegeneration] because this is one of the
most important crises facing allopathic medicine at this moment in history.

respectfully,

Grace E. Jackson, MD
author of
Drug Induced Dementia: a perfect crime
and
Rethinking Psychiatric Drugs: a guide for informed consent